09-23-2003, 05:17 PM
Yeah, we're definitely going to make our characters look much like anime characters. The reason being is that since we are not Squaresoft, we can't produce a 3D game that looks as well-defined and polished as something by Square. Most likely the game will be 3D, but we will be using cell-shading to make the game look more like a cartoon. That way we can compensate on the 3D images and they will not look so much like polygons. You should read up on how some games like Black & White and others similar to that were created. It was created exactly the same way as we're starting now, that's why we believe we can do it. The games were created on a single idea and a bunch of crazy guys just putting time in to create a game. Just a team of goal-oriented and dedicated programmers and graphic artists and they created awesome games. Problem is we want to use Lightwave and since we're going to make a legit game we can't use Pirated tools. I have a pirated version of Lightwave 7, and the program itself cost like $1500 from New Tech, though I can find it at places for around $400 for a full version and brand new. We'll also need Adobe Photoshop and some other things and it's mad money from the start.
The actual game isn't going to be a full game. It will be much like a demo and we'll need testers to tell us what's cool and what's not cool. The demo is what we will use to gain interest from companies. If they like it they'll fund for the full version. It'll take a while to finish a demo, since we have other things that we'll be working on besides this side project. Funny thing is this is more for just kicks then anything else just to prove to ourselves we can do it, but when my friends and I get our minds on something we usually see it out til the end and make sure it's worth something.
We just need motivation kept constant, and we should have the demo out in a year. If not, then it'll go on the pile of dust collecting ideas that will hopefully manifest itself once again when we get to it. I hate when that happens, but reality is that things do happen and sometimes you get sidetracked, and as I said before this is only a side project. We have a main one already under way and if it works out it won't take much to upkeep, and we'll basically just be sitting around once it's done, so we might as well make use of our time.
The actual game isn't going to be a full game. It will be much like a demo and we'll need testers to tell us what's cool and what's not cool. The demo is what we will use to gain interest from companies. If they like it they'll fund for the full version. It'll take a while to finish a demo, since we have other things that we'll be working on besides this side project. Funny thing is this is more for just kicks then anything else just to prove to ourselves we can do it, but when my friends and I get our minds on something we usually see it out til the end and make sure it's worth something.
We just need motivation kept constant, and we should have the demo out in a year. If not, then it'll go on the pile of dust collecting ideas that will hopefully manifest itself once again when we get to it. I hate when that happens, but reality is that things do happen and sometimes you get sidetracked, and as I said before this is only a side project. We have a main one already under way and if it works out it won't take much to upkeep, and we'll basically just be sitting around once it's done, so we might as well make use of our time.
If you are reading this, you obviously have nothing better to do with your time.